The weekend´s carnival parade in Mérida, the capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura, was delayed in its departure after the balcony of a property collapsed, falling onto spectators waiting in the street for the passage of the p...

From Monday the 3rd of March, children under four years of age must be in possession of a ticket in order to travel on mid and long distance trains in Spain. The ticket for travel will be free, as long as the child does not occupy a seat, and will be ...

Nine people have been killed in six fatal accidents on Spanish roads during the course of this weekend, between 15:00 on Friday and 20:00 on Sunday, according to the DGT traffic department. Saturday was the worst day of the weekend when y, when six pe...

According to a review from the Bank of Spain issued this week, the total amount of cash put into circulation in January was 57,403,000 euro, of which 53.691 million is in notes, and the remaining 3.712 million in coins, collectively down by 12.2% from ...

The young male wanted by the police for seemingly driving his car whilst sat in the passenger seat has surrendered himself to the police in Barcelona. In an unusual move the police asked for assistance in identifying the man who was seen in a video pr...

Having just agreed a 14% minimum pay cut, pilots flying for Spanish airline Iberia have just received one unexpected bonus, as they will no longer have to carry round copious amounts of paper in the form of flight manuals. Iberia has just approved th...

The president of the Spanish college of opticians, Juan Carlos Martínez Moral of the Consejo General de Colegios de Ópticos-Optometristas, has warned this week that the improper use of cosmetic contact lenses can cause corneal damage and ...

Data released on Friday confirms that for the third consecutive week, recorded between the 10th and the 16th of February, there has been a decrease in the number of reported cases of influenza. The current figure is 101.45 cases per hundred thousand i...

Reports published last week on their official website suggest that Star Trek could be beaming into Spain by the end of next year. We're not talking about a convention. And, no, the next film won't be shooting there. Rather, Star Trek will be represente...

The technological investigation department of the Guardia Civil are warning of yet another scam which is entrapping many Facebook users, offering gift cards for the multinational fashion stores Zara and H&M. The posts which are distributed virally...

In 2013 Valencia recorded a total of 47,649 house sales, the third highest figure in Spain behind Andalucía (66,841) and Catalonia (47,771). Of the sales carried through 22,250 were for new properties while the figure for resales was slightly hi...

The Spanish government is looking to approve draft legislation that will strictly control the advertising of so called “e-cigarettes”, as well as enforcing information displays on the risks to health from the electronic replacement of the t...